/usr/lib/swipl/library/random.pl
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  • swipl
    • library
      • error.pl
      • debug.pl -- Print debug messages and test assertions
      • apply.pl -- Apply predicates on a list
      • lists.pl -- List Manipulation
      • broadcast.pl -- Event service
      • shlib.pl -- Utility library for loading foreign objects (DLLs, shared objects)
      • option.pl -- Option list processing
      • thread_pool.pl -- Resource bounded thread management
      • gensym.pl -- Generate unique symbols
      • settings.pl -- Setting management
      • arithmetic.pl -- Extensible arithmetic
      • main.pl -- Provide entry point for scripts
      • readutil.pl -- Read utilities
      • operators.pl
      • pairs.pl -- Operations on key-value lists
      • prolog_source.pl -- Examine Prolog source-files
      • record.pl -- Access compound arguments by name
      • quasi_quotations.pl -- Define Quasi Quotation syntax
      • sandbox.pl -- Sandboxed Prolog code
      • apply_macros.pl -- Goal expansion rules to avoid meta-calling
      • yall.pl -- Lambda expressions
      • assoc.pl -- Binary associations
      • prolog_format.pl -- Analyse format specifications
      • pure_input.pl -- Pure Input from files and streams
      • solution_sequences.pl -- Modify solution sequences
      • ordsets.pl -- Ordered set manipulation
      • random.pl -- Random numbers
        • random/1
        • random_between/3
        • random/3
        • setrand/1
        • getrand/1
        • maybe/0
        • maybe/1
        • maybe/2
        • random_perm2/4
        • random_member/2
        • random_select/3
        • random_subseq/3
        • randset/3
        • randseq/3
        • random_permutation/2
        • random_numlist/4
      • base64.pl -- Base64 encoding and decoding
      • aggregate.pl -- Aggregation operators on backtrackable predicates
      • predicate_options.pl
      • csv.pl -- Process CSV (Comma-Separated Values) data
      • pprint.pl -- Pretty Print Prolog terms
      • atom.pl -- Operations on atoms
      • modules.pl -- Module utility predicates
      • occurs.pl -- Finding and counting sub-terms
      • prolog_xref.pl -- Prolog cross-referencer data collection
      • prolog_colour.pl
      • lazy_lists.pl -- Lazy list handling
      • ugraphs.pl -- Graph manipulation library
      • url.pl
      • www_browser.pl -- Open a URL in the users browser
      • prolog_pack.pl
      • git.pl -- Run GIT commands
      • utf8.pl -- UTF-8 encoding/decoding on lists of character codes.
      • quintus.pl -- Quintus compatibility
      • prolog_versions.pl -- Demand specific (Prolog) versions
      • prolog_wrap.pl -- Wrapping predicates
      • dialect.pl -- Support multiple Prolog dialects
      • date.pl -- Process dates and times
      • persistency.pl -- Provide persistent dynamic predicates
      • iostream.pl -- Utilities to deal with streams
      • prolog_code.pl -- Utilities for reasoning about code
      • strings.pl -- String utilities
      • dif.pl -- The dif/2 constraint
      • edinburgh.pl -- Some traditional Edinburgh predicates
      • terms.pl -- Term manipulation
      • ansi_term.pl -- Print decorated text to ANSI consoles
      • threadutil.pl -- Interactive thread utilities
      • prolog_stack.pl -- Examine the Prolog stack
      • prolog_clause.pl
      • prolog_breakpoints.pl -- Manage Prolog break-points
      • wfs.pl -- Well Founded Semantics interface
      • sort.pl
      • dicts.pl -- Dict utilities
      • varnumbers.pl -- Utilities for numbered terms
      • base32.pl -- Base32 encoding and decoding
      • charsio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • codesio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • coinduction.pl -- Co-Logic Programming
      • heaps.pl -- heaps/priority queues
      • rbtrees.pl
      • statistics.pl -- Get information about resource usage
      • when.pl -- Conditional coroutining
      • backcomp.pl -- Backward compatibility
      • ctypes.pl -- Character code classification
      • tables.pl -- XSB interface to tables
      • help.pl -- Text based manual
      • portray_text.pl -- Portray text
      • prolog_history.pl
      • prolog_profile.pl -- Execution profiler
      • prolog_coverage.pl -- Coverage analysis tool
      • macros.pl
      • listing.pl -- List programs and pretty print clauses
      • prolog_debug.pl -- User level debugging tools
      • exceptions.pl
      • optparse.pl -- command line parsing
      • nb_rbtrees.pl -- Non-backtrackable operations on red black trees
      • prolog_autoload.pl
      • check.pl -- Consistency checking
      • thread.pl -- High level thread primitives
      • streams.pl
      • check_installation.pl -- Check installation issues and features
      • prolog_codewalk.pl -- Prolog code walker
      • prolog_metainference.pl
      • fastrw.pl -- Fast reading and writing of terms
      • prolog_trace.pl -- Print access to predicates
      • oset.pl
      • increval.pl -- Incremental dynamic predicate modification
      • vm.pl -- SWI-Prolog Virtual Machine utilities
      • prolog_jiti.pl
      • qpforeign.pl -- Quintus compatible foreign loader
      • shell.pl
      • rwlocks.pl -- Read/write locks
      • make.pl
      • system.pl -- System utilities
      • zip.pl -- Access resource ZIP archives
      • explain.pl -- Describe Prolog Terms
      • nb_set.pl -- Non-backtrackable sets
      • tty.pl -- Terminal operations
      • prolog_config.pl
      • intercept.pl
      • edit.pl
      • hashtable.pl
      • prolog_deps.pl
      • files.pl
      • writef.pl -- Old-style formatted write
      • qsave.pl
      • readln.pl
      • pio.pl
 random_subseq(+List, -Subseq, -Complement) is det
random_subseq(-List, +Subseq, +Complement) is semidet
Selects a random subsequence Subseq of List, with Complement containing all elements of List that were not selected. Each element of List is included with equal probability in either Subseq or Complement.

random_subseq/3 may also be called with Subseq and Complement bound and List unbound, which will recreate List by randomly interleaving Subseq and Complement. This mode may fail randomly, matching SICStus behavior. The failure probability corresponds to the probability of the "forward" mode selecting a Subseq/Complement combination with different lengths.

Compatibility
- SICStus 4